Senior Design Engineer

MSI Transducers | Location:  543 Great Rd. Littleton MA | Send resume to:  MSIHR@airmar.com

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JOB SUMMARY:

Do you like working in a fast-paced environment where you own development efforts from concept to realization? Do you enjoy working on a variety of problems which will utilize the broad base of technical and soft skills you have built during your career? Are an engineer who doesn’t fit in a box and works best in cross-functional teams? If so, you will fit in at MSI Transducers!

MSI Transducers is a small team that manufactures low volume, highly complex electro-mechanical sonar assemblies for defense and commercial applications. This advanced-level position receives high level instructions on new assignments and is expected to exercise independent judgment in determining objectives and approaches to most assignments.

The Senior Engineer acts as the responsible engineer for complex mechanical and acoustic designs and may provide technical direction and guidance to technicians and drafting staff for the completion of drawings, the development of new assembly processes and the fabrication of transducers. This position can be assigned project leadership roles and responsibilities and has primary involvement in design reviews both internal and with customers. To perform at this level an employee is expected to communicate well, perform with high quality, work independently, and interact with other departments across the company.

The ideal candidate will have experience with acoustics and sonar.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Transducer Design

• Develop and optimize transducer designs including selecting appropriate materials, evaluating acoustical and electrical outputs, producing mechanical configurations, and specifying environmental protection for underwater use.
• Utilize specialized software and modeling tools to simulate the performance of ultrasonic transducers, ensuring their efficiency, accuracy, and reliability.
• Maintain thorough and organized documentation of designs, simulations, test results, and project progress.
• Plan and conduct experiments and tests to validate processes against specification requirements. Analyze and interpret test results to refine designs as needed.
• Oversee product specification review and design specification generation for moderate to complex projects.
• Organize and prepare summaries of analysis completed to support the design methodology and satisfaction of requirements.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in acoustics and ultrasound technology and apply this knowledge to improve transducer designs.

Documentation

• Complete detailed design and analysis culminating in an engineering drawing package and related parts lists and BOMs.
• Direct the preparation of detail drawings and solid model files of components, assemblies, and subassemblies.

Program Management

• Establish milestones and monitor adherence to master plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Present and review design packages at both internal and customer attended reviews.
• Interface with outside vendors to determine part suitability, availability of materials and parts, and delivery schedules.
• Conduct periodic program status review meetings with major program contributors to report status relative to all aspects of program objectives and assure resolution of program performance issues.

Collaboration

• Coordinate with business development as appropriate and assist in the preparation and implementation of business development and marketing plans. Responsible for initial program planning including proposal preparation, development of statements of work specifications, and estimation of product or service costs.
• Define and direct the performance of program functional task elements such as procurement, manufacturing, quality, configuration, logistics, administrative functions, contracts administration, facilities, etc.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and scientists, to integrate transducer hardware into larger systems.
• Direct manufacturing team in assembly of prototype and advanced development model hardware and support production team technicians during the design process to address any fabrication issues.
• Monitor test data from production lines and perform root cause analysis on transducers that do not meet specifications.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, or Ph.D. Degree in Acoustics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or a related technical field is required.
• Must have 5 to 10 years of experience in engineering in a related field.
• Superior presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Exceptional decision-making and communication skills.
• Experience validating designs for production.
• Proven ability working well in multi-disciplinary teams with conflicting / competing priorities.
• 3+ years of Program Management experience driving tasks to completion, managing schedules and budgets.
• Must be familiar with numerical-analysis software such as MathCad or MATLAB.
• Expert utilization Microsoft Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and /or working with underwater transducers, sonar systems, or subsea systems.
• Experience creating, reviewing, releasing, and controlling technical documentation packages in a production environment.
• The ideal candidate will have familiarity with a commercial finite element software such as PZ Flex, ANSYS, COMSOL , or Atila.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or an equivalent program management software.
• Familiarity with 3D solid modelling software such as Solidworks or CREO.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND ABILITIES:

Individuals must possess knowledge, skills and abilities or be able to explain and demonstrate that the individual can perform the primary functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities and to possess the necessary physical requirement, with or without the aid of mechanical devices, to safely perform the primary functions of the job.

• The ability to bend downward and forward by bending spine at the waist; bend legs at knee, to come to rest on knee or knees, bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine; extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction; use upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion; raise objects from a lower to a higher position or move objects horizontally from position to position; to pinch, pick or otherwise primarily work with fingers. Primary functions are performed sitting.
• Visual acuity sufficient for work which deals largely with mechanical assembly and/or visual inspection involving small parts/defects.
• Ability to wear protective clothing such as mask, gloves, safety glasses and or safety shoes as required.
• Ability to perform repetitive or routine duties working from detailed instructions and under standard procedures.
• Ability to endure periods of heavy workload or excessive stress.

The candidate must be a US citizen and eligible to obtain a security clearance.

If you meet these criteria, please forward your resume to: MSIHR@airmar.com.